• Inerseshen Creative Media, a marketing and graphic design business in Roseburg, has expanded to a larger space and added one employee. The News-Review, 7-11-10

• EnerG2, a Seattle company that makes high-tech car batteries, is converting a former warehouse in Albany into a factory. It will employ at least 35 people and is expected to begin operating by October 2011. Statesman Journal, 8-12-10

• Running Bear Deli opened in Sprague River. Herald and News, 8-8-10

I'm particularly fond of the last name. My co-workers use to ask me if I am I runner, and I would always respond, "Only if I'm being chased. And really, only if I'm being chased by a wild animal, like a bear."

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